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Please keep in mind this is a guy who, quite seriously, this is not made up...
... used to use a dead rat in his pigsty of a room as an alarm clock.
The sun would come in through the window, bake the rat corpse to the point of a striking pungent smell, and this is what would wake him up.
Again, I am not making this up, just a year or twoish back he earnestly explained this to all his viewers.
The man also very, very rarely brushes his teeth, and has frequent issues with his gums bleeding.
This is your basement dweller 4chan addict, who just so happened to win the streamer popularity contest.
On basically any topic other than World of Warcraft, he has no fucking clue what he is talking about.
To be fair he said he brushes his teeth twice a day every day (ever since he had to replace his whole teeth because the original ones rotted out π€£)
Wait, ALL OF THEM?!??!!
I think most of his teeth were rotten out yeah. Not sure if ALL of them but most. Doesn't really surprise me because he drinks the most disgusting beverage ever like a normal person drinks water (Dr pepper)
Honestly, and I know I'm gonna get downvoted for this again, but he makes a surprising amount of sense in a lot of topics he touches and it often seems like his responses are well thought through and quite eloquent.
And that's exactly the problem. It makes it really easy for some people to fall for his batshit crazy bullshit takes and it makes him a lot more dangerous than if he was just some crazy Maga nut.
He also addresses a lot of the struggles his predominantly young male audience experiences. Something, pretty much everyone else fails to do. And his arguments only really fall apart once you invest quite some time to look deeper into the matter.
Disregarding Asmongold as just a crazy basement dweller with dead rats in his house might be easy but it's severely underestimating the danger that this man poses if we don't find ways to offer a better save space for his target audience. Although, Dr. K. is doing god's work here!
Hey, engaging in good faith here:
Yeah, I get that a socially stunted basement dweller 'elder gamer' is indeed appealing to and relatable with a younger generation of basically the same.
And I totally get that many, many people are just highly dismissive of and rude toward such socially awkward people, which reinforces the entire dynamic... when what they should be is more appealing to, sympathetic and empathetic to the younger disaffected crowd, that are basically scared and confused and angry kids, many of whom could be easily set toward a better path in life and development of their world view if ... just anyone would actually make them feel heard.
I really, really do get that, as I myself come from a right wing family, and genuienly didn't even realize how fucked up a good deal of my young beliefs were, how self-destructive some of my own behaviors were, untill I actually encountered and got to spend a lot of time with people less shitty than my family, irl... granted this was 20-30 years ago, I think I am roughly the same age as Asmon, so this was... back when computers and video games were actually niche, weirdo nerd things, not the widespread bog standard for children's socialization.
I have no argument with any of that.
I do however request at least one actual example of Asmon having a take on literally anything that is... lets say, more well thought out and reasoned than a high school sophomore's 5 page book report.
... And in saying that, I am now remembering that American literacy rates and scores have plummeted since I got out of high school, I think within +/- 2 ish years of myself graduating from college, that was the actual high point for average American literacy levels...
Maybe my standard of 'well reasoned and thoughtful' just objectively is higher than the modern standard.
Hrm.
How do you then reset the alarm so it doesnβt smell? Do you refrigerate it or freeze it?
... you pull the blinds down... and go noseblind after enough 'exposure'.
He probably reused the same one a fair few times. After that stops working, new rat. God knows he has plenty of volunteers.